A plant for de-aerating and heating a vegetable product has an extraction section in which a vegetable starting product is treated, in order to obtain an extracted vegetable product, or a vegetable juice. The extracted vegetable product is fed to a cold de-aeration section obtaining an extracted vegetable product and de-aerated cold. The plant also has a heating section in which the de-aerated vegetable product is heated from the starting temperature T1 to a final temperature T2, with T2>;T1, obtaining a heated de-aerated product. The plant also has a storage reservoir of the de-aerated vegetable product.